Seemingly contradictory, mutual exclusive. > Noob me found all sorts of howtos and getting started guides. Maybe the Python site could do with an official "managing Python for end-users."
#How to install jupyter lab on mac how to#
Looking at the amount of polish on the Python docs and the fact that people still don't know how to install Python, it gives you a sense of how hard explaining things is. Probably all the programming toolchains are this hard to a newbie! But it was a humbling experience after 34 years of programming, not being able to load a piece of sample code in a Sunday afternoon.įollowing Python and Java is always informative because, between them, they manage to make almost every mistake imaginable, despite having very smart people putting careful thought into the design. More googling revealed instructions with complex CFLAGS environment setups to fix it, which didn't - and at that point it was very far from the supposed convenience of scripting languages anyway. As a complete newbie to the Python ecosystem, I googled for instructions and found various environment managers, which then failed possibly because something is incompatible with Big Sur. Eventually some version of JupyterLab was installed somewhere, but it couldn't find any dependencies for the notebook.
There was initially some kind of Python version conflict on my Mac.
"It's probably as easy as brew install pip and then use that to load the other dependencies," I assumed. Last weekend I came across an interesting Jupiter notebook and figured I'd give it a try on my work laptop.